Engineer A Faithful Agent Limits
P · Principle
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/86#Engineer_A_Faithful_Agent_Limits
Definition
Engineer A owes a duty of loyalty to the client arising from the wetland delineation engagement, but that duty does not extend to remaining silent about a substantial ongoing violation of federal and state environmental law that threatens protected public resources.
Properties
Instance of
Applied to
Client Wetland Fill Violator
Balancing with
Environmental Law Compliance Principle
Public Welfare Paramountcy Principle
Concrete expression
Engineer A owes a duty of loyalty to the client arising from the wetland delineation engagement, but that duty does not extend to remaining silent about a substantial ongoing violation of federal and state environmental law that threatens protected public resources.
Confidence
0.85
Interpretation
The faithful agent duty is a genuine professional obligation but is expressly subordinate to the engineer's paramount duty to public welfare. A client's illegal conduct that harms publicly protected resources falls outside the scope of legitimate client interests that the faithful agent duty is designed to protect.
Tension resolution
The faithful agent duty does not authorize an engineer to suppress knowledge of a substantial statutory violation. The client's interest in avoiding regulatory consequences for illegal conduct is not a legitimate interest that the faithful agent duty protects.
Match Confidence
0.95
Match Reasoning
Individual typed as existing ontology class 'Faithful Agent Duty Principle'
Matched Ontology Label
Faithful Agent Duty Principle
Matches Existing
true
Synthesis Literal
appliedTo
balancingWith
concreteExpression
confidence
interpretation
principleClass
tensionResolution
textReferences
Relationships
invokedBy
Agent Engineer A
Source Evidence
Text references
The installation of the fill material is a substantial violation of the federal and state laws and regulations
the client has installed a substantial amount of fill material on more than 1/2 an acre across a portion of the wetlands without any permits, variances, or permissions
Source text
The installation of the fill material is a substantial violation of the federal and state laws and regulations.
TTL
@prefix case86: <http://proethica.org/ontology/case/86#> .
@prefix owl: <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix proeth: <http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#> .
@prefix proeth-core: <http://proethica.org/ontology/core#> .
@prefix proeth-prov: <http://proethica.org/provenance#> .
@prefix prov: <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#> .
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix skos: <http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#> .
@prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
case86:Engineer_A_Faithful_Agent_Limits a proeth:FaithfulAgentDutyPrinciple,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Engineer A Faithful Agent Limits" ;
proeth-core:invokedBy case86:Agent_Engineer_A ;
proeth:appliedTo "Client Wetland Fill Violator" ;
proeth:balancingWith "Environmental Law Compliance Principle",
"Public Welfare Paramountcy Principle" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Principle" ;
proeth:concreteExpression "Engineer A owes a duty of loyalty to the client arising from the wetland delineation engagement, but that duty does not extend to remaining silent about a substantial ongoing violation of federal and state environmental law that threatens protected public resources." ;
proeth:confidence "0.85" ;
proeth:interpretation "The faithful agent duty is a genuine professional obligation but is expressly subordinate to the engineer's paramount duty to public welfare. A client's illegal conduct that harms publicly protected resources falls outside the scope of legitimate client interests that the faithful agent duty is designed to protect." ;
proeth:invokedBy "Engineer A Wetland Delineation Engineer" ;
proeth:principleClass "Faithful Agent Duty Principle" ;
proeth:tensionResolution "The faithful agent duty does not authorize an engineer to suppress knowledge of a substantial statutory violation. The client's interest in avoiding regulatory consequences for illegal conduct is not a legitimate interest that the faithful agent duty protects." ;
proeth:textReferences "The installation of the fill material is a substantial violation of the federal and state laws and regulations",
"the client has installed a substantial amount of fill material on more than 1/2 an acre across a portion of the wetlands without any permits, variances, or permissions" ;
proeth-prov:discoveredInCase 86 ;
proeth-prov:discoveredInPass 2 ;
proeth-prov:discoveredInSection "facts" ;
proeth-prov:firstDiscoveredAt "2026-06-04T17:28:58.159954+00:00"^^xsd:dateTime ;
proeth-prov:firstDiscoveredInCase 86 ;
proeth-prov:matchConfidence 0.95 ;
proeth-prov:matchReasoning "Individual typed as existing ontology class 'Faithful Agent Duty Principle'" ;
proeth-prov:matchedOntologyClass proeth:FaithfulAgentDutyPrinciple ;
proeth-prov:matchedOntologyLabel "Faithful Agent Duty Principle" ;
proeth-prov:matchesExisting true ;
proeth-prov:sourceText "The installation of the fill material is a substantial violation of the federal and state laws and regulations." ;
proeth-prov:synthesisLiteral "appliedTo",
"balancingWith",
"concreteExpression",
"confidence",
"interpretation",
"principleClass",
"tensionResolution",
"textReferences" ;
rdfs:comment "Engineer A owes a duty of loyalty to the client arising from the wetland delineation engagement, but that duty does not extend to remaining silent about a substantial ongoing violation of federal and state environmental law that threatens protected public resources." ;
skos:definition "Engineer A owes a duty of loyalty to the client arising from the wetland delineation engagement, but that duty does not extend to remaining silent about a substantial ongoing violation of federal and state environmental law that threatens protected public resources." ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-06-04T17:28:58.159954+00:00"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasAttributedTo "Case 86 Extraction",
"claude-sonnet-4-6" ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 86 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
86
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
facts
First discovered
2026-06-04T17:28:58.159954+00:00
First case
86
Generated
2026-06-04T17:28:58.159954+00:00
Attributed to
['Case 86 Extraction', 'claude-sonnet-4-6']
Generated by
ProEthica Case 86 Extraction